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I take a ten-foot pole, and let it cover all that comes under it.Them that does their dooty to Man, I guess you won't have much trouble in squarin' accounts with the Lord.…Cited from The Story Of Kennett, by Bayard Taylor

Most other names are directly tied to its role as pole star.

I couldn't keep you out of this with a ten-foot pole.Yo're like Tom Kane thataway -- always wantin' in where it's warm.…Cited from The Heart of the Range, by William Patterson White

It is essential that the rider sits in the saddle and uses lower body and legs to navigate their horse through the poles.Forward motion must be maintained in order to keep all of the poles standing.The use of the horse's hindquarters helps the horse zigzag through the poles in a smooth weave.…

If a bar magnet is cut in half, it is not the case that one half has the north pole and the other half has the south pole.Instead, each piece has its own north and south poles.A magnetic monopole cannot be created from normal matter such as atoms and electrons, but would instead be a new elementary particle.…

Mr. Waterman got out and went up the stream.In a little while he returned and stated that he thought they could get up all right if they poled.Then the boys saw how this was done.…Cited from Bob Hunt in Canada, by George W. Orton

There are still many other entertainment poles spread out around the city, featuring local and national artists.One of the highlights is Saturday when more than one and a half million people follow the Galo da Madrugada group.…

Now imagine you are standing on the equator of the earth, facing north with the stick held out in front of you.You walk north up along a line of longitude until you get to the north pole.At that point you turn right, ninety degrees, but you keep the stick held out in the same direction, which means you are now holding the stick out to your left.…

Any trees that fell quickly took down power poles.It took utility crews from 4 to as much as 16 days to get a look at the damage and start to restore power to nearly 1.3 million people.…

The forced labourers were threatened with everyday harassment and repression; they were forbidden from using phones, holding cultural events and sports events, they could not visit restaurants or swimming pools, or have contact with the local German population.Poles only allowed to attend a church mass once a month - and only in the German language.They also had smaller food rations than Germans, and had to wear a sign with the letter P on their clothes indicating their ethnic background.…

Senna started racing karts at Interlagos and entered a karting competition at the age of 13.He started his first race on pole position.Senna faced rivals who were some years older than him but managed to lead most of the race before retiring after colliding with a rival.…

Since 1996, the village has been considering making improvements to the village square.At the center of the square is a flag pole located in the middle of the road.The initial plan was to move the flag pole and insert a traffic light.…

As aircraft started to be used against ground targets on the battlefield, the AA guns could not be traversed quickly enough at close targets and, being relatively few, were not always in the right place (and were often unpopular with other troops), so changed positions frequently.Soon the forces were adding various machine-gun based weapons mounted on poles.These short-range weapons proved more deadly, and the "Red Baron" is believed to have been shot down by an anti-aircraft Vickers machine gun.…

Some star projectors have two balls at opposite ends of the projector like a dumbbell.In that case all stars can be shown and the view can go to either pole or anywhere between.But care must be taken that the projection fields of the two balls match where they meet or overlap.…

Note the use of a single pole, common into the first part of the 20th Century.

There is a memorial to his work at a location near Aurora, pictured here.His result suggested that the earth was more flattened towards the south pole than towards the north.George Everest, of the Indian Survey, while recuperating from an illness at the Cape nearly seventy years later, suggested that La Caille's latitude observations had been affected by the gravitational attraction of Table Mountain at the southern end and by the Piketberg Mountain at the northern.…

These poles are also known as heraldic, crest, or family poles.Poles of this type are placed outside the clan house of the most important village leaders.Often, watchman figures are carved at the top of the pole to protect the pole owner's family and the village.…

When Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509, he married Catherine of Aragon himself.Lady Pole was again appointed one of her ladies-in-waiting.…

Raising a totem pole is rarely done using modern methods, even for poles installed in modern settings.Most artists use a traditional method followed by a pole-raising ceremony.The traditional method calls for a deep trench to be dug.…

He divided a sphere in half, letting the tube represent the diameter, the one end representing the north pole, the other the south pole.Then he divided the semicircle from one pole to the other into thirty parts.Six lines drawn from the pole he drew a heavy ring to represent the arctic polar circle.…